The Tanner's Jack | Greene King / Morland Brewery

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Reviews by Loki:

Pours a dark orange, honey color with thin white head that fades quickly. The smell is mostly yeast with floral and citrus undertones. The taste is a dry crispness with just a hint of malt that is not that impressive. Overall not as good as I remembered. Definately not this brewery's best beer.

More User Reviews:

Poured a dark orange color with little head that went away real quickly.I didnt get much smell from this one a little yeasty orange tinge but not much.Taste was kinda run-of-the-mill kinda bland .Went down pretty well but not one of the breweries best for sure.

A copper pour from bottle to pint glass with a weak and quickly disappearing head. There is little visible carbonation. The malt is the primary fragrance with notes of stock feed and grass. The maltiness is the theme but not too sweet. There is a minor hop finish and a tad of skunkiness. The mouthfeel is nothing special but I can't find an overwhelming fault. Average I guess is the best adjective in this case. Overall this is a fine summer sipper with attrractive bottling though lacking in freshness info. The (-) in my B- rating is in that the style wants for more hop both in the nose and finish. This brew is a better hop character away from a B or B+, though this is obviously just speculation.

I really enjoyed this ale. The nose was pleasantly sharp with hops. The initial taste had that nice bitter hoppy bite with a hint of fruityness and a clean dry finish. The malts are present at the first taste but fade quickly giving way to the hops. There really wasn't anything super striking about this but it was just generally enjoyable.

I picked this up as a single at a local store. It was the last on the shelf and I didn't think much about that until I went back to get some more. The clerk at the store checked the computer and stated that it was no longer available from the brewery. Hmm. As I check things out online the future of this brew seems murky at best. Hopefully I'll be able to find it again soon.

This was a simple, English ale. Poured a delicate amber into a glass with barely any head at all. Smell was of old leather and barley. Taste was good, but not great; spicy, fruity notes with a hint of malty sweetness. Overall, a good English ale, but not as good as others out there.

A very handsome beer with incredible head that lasted. Aroma gives hints of must, earth, butter, a little lackluster. Caramel hops to the forefront, excellent bitter profile. Some vague off flavors of grains, raw grasses, husks. However the beer neatly sidesteps these to a finish that is warming, spicily dry from the hops, and compels you to drink more. A little watery, but more than adequately creamy and smooth. Nothing outrageous here, just a reliable bitter to hang your hat on.

Still had a musty taste, and furthermore, one absolutely devoid of hops. I mean, I get it, its a traditional english pale, but dammit man, I've had kool aid hoppier than this. Just tasted like fetid swamp water that people threw old tin cans in, because it had that kind of metallic off flavor on top of the staleness. How it packed that much bad flavor into a thin body, I have no idea. Even some mild bad sour notes that might be purely accidental or a result of the clear bottle, who knows. Nothing about this beer was good, way too expensive for crap. BMC all better than this. Have you had an MGD lately?

Clear bottle. Very clear brown, above amber color. The yellowish head is gone in about 15 seconds, big bubbles and some hazy marks. Aroma is caramel-sweet, fairly pronounced. Medium-bodied, a little buttery diacetyl, a little melted sugar. The hops mostly show as a pepper toward the finish. Overall, a fairly unspecial brew to me, pleasant but not at all outstanding. In a way, a little more carbonation would have kept it from being a speck cloying.

A light almost dry caramel laced aftertaste might lend this beer to be a good drink with seafood or something, would like to find that pairing, otherwise as a stand alone drink it's not overly impressive.

I'm going to go against my usual policy and do a review of a beer that's clearly gone bad for one simple reason: because some genius decided it would be a good idea to bottle a beer in clear bottles then ship it overseas. Sure, it wouldn't be old or bad by default, but using glass bottles? That's just bad policy.

First off, let's note that this beer really is a beauty. The color is a clear, brilliant amber and activity is continuous. A nice, off-white crown between one and two fingers high sits thick and rocky, daring me to break it. It takes some time to dissipate to foam and when it does, lacing is in thick patches with few breaks between them, then, toward the bottom of the glass, the lacing's got legs creeping all over the place.
As soon as the cap's off, I know buying a beer in a clear bottle was a bad idea. It smells like hundreds of stoners were kicked out of Woodstock for smoking too much pot and they've been living in my kitchen ever since, or like someone loosed a labful of skunks genetically modified to continuously spray musk a hundred times more potent than a regular skunk's in my kitchen then set them all on fire, leaving them running and spraying in terror and panic to eke out the last miserable moments of their tortured lives. Also, they're fire retardant. There's also a touch of floral hops, a bit of caramel malts, and grains. But mostly hippies, genetically modified skunks on fire, that whole thing.
The taste seems like it may be a bit better at first; there's a big sulfuric character, and everything else seems light and faded, but grains, hops and malts are still here with floral, grassy bitterness. It does go sour very quickly, though, then is a funky mix of bitter and sour that's just bad.
The mouthfeel seems like it might be good under normal conditions. Now it's a little thin and somewhat slick, though it's got a good smoothness and it does get fuller in my mouth.
Maybe it's good. I wouldn't know.

12 oz. bottle at home...smooth, clean, easily drinkable in mass quantities. Recalls the feel of sitting in London pubs a few years back, although this beer holds little memorable. Copper color pours a light, thin average body with lacing that produces a nondescript light thin average taste. A serviceable brew that Id serve friends by the case...

Beautiful dark amber color with a thin white head that is gone in seconds. Sweet caramel aroma that was quite enticing. Smooth buttery taste with a hint of hops. An easy beer to drink and a perfect mouthfeel due to the balance of hops.

The Tanner's Jack pours a beautiful, clear amber body with an orange cast beneath a creamy head of off-white froth that holds quite well and leaves some very nice lace about the glass until the very bottom of the pint.

The nose is nutty and just a touch caramelish, with some low-level diacetyl, as well as some mineral qualities, and a handfull of grassy hops.

In the mouth it's medium-bodied with a light bristle to the tongue from its fine-bubbled, moderate carbonation.

In the flavor, it's diacetyl shows a bit more, but the nuttiness it lends is splendid - and it's not overdone. Some delicate fruitiness also peeks through; and it's balanced by a firm bitterness, and a healthy dose of grassy and mildly leafy hops.

If you don't object to a little buttery diacetyl, this makes a brilliant session ale that maintains its character; is easy on the palate and never overwhelms; and won't send you into orbit at only 4.4% abv. A very nice pint indeed!

12oz bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours a dark copper color with an off white head. The aroma is malt with an almost stale cigarette smell. The taste is much like the aroma is a dry and slightly spicy finish. Overall, this is a pretty decent brew but not something to get excited over.

No particular characteristic stood out with the Tanner's Jack as I tried this as a 4 ounce taster at a New Year's Eve party. Clear glass didn't impress nor did it's poured appearance. Flowral scent and fruity aftertaste. Didn't want to drink more than the 4 ounces.

Coppery red with a quickly dissipating head that leaves decent lacing. Nice malty aroma...taste was similar with the malty presence remaining until the finish. Mouthfeel, initially oliy and full ended in a slightly astringent quality. I'm not a big fan of oily feeling brews, but the finish balanced the oiliness. Felt like more than a 4.4 abv brew.

When poured into my glass, this brew had a small off-white head with fine-small bubbles. The body was amber in hue. The nose is floral. The flavor is somewhat sweet and acidic and some bitterness was observed. This brew had fair lacing on the sides of my glass.